1. She’s Married to a Tennis Pro

Former number one tennis player in the world, Andy Rodick saw his future wife on a sports talk show, and had to meet her. So, two years later, he had his agent call her agent.

She told the Daily Mail, “He wooed me. But it took five months until I called him back! And then that was that.”
As they were on their first date-dinner and a comedy show- Decker knew she had found the man she was destined to marry. She was 19 at the time.

I said, ‘This guy is a catch. This is the man I’m going to marry.’ He made me laugh – he is hilarious and he is also chivalrous.

When asked if she plays tennis like her husband, she said,
“No! I don’t play at all. I figure it’s a dangerous situation to try to learn a skill from somebody you love. Stay away. Stay far, far away – leave the tennis to him.”

2. She’s Named After a Horse, Not the Borough She Lives In

I’m named after a horse. My mom’s best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested ‘Brooklyn’ as a more formal version, and it just stuck — and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Ironically, she moved to New York when she moved out at 18 years old.
She lived there for almost five years, and told the Daily News, “It still feels like home when I’m in Brooklyn.”

She has a house in Brooklyn now with Roddick.People magazine reported that her and Roddick “have been splitting their time between their homes in Palm Beach, Florida, Austin, Texas, and the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.”

I set out to go into acting.And this show is great, because I love comedy. I don’t know if I was considered ‘funny’ when I was growing up. … People who have known me for a while would always be really surprised when I would, like, tell a dirty joke.

From the looks of her Instagram post, filming the show has been enjoyable for her.

5. She Had Never Left North Carolina Before Moving to New York

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The self-proclaimed tomboy grew up very modestly in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The daughter of a nurse and a sales associate at a medical company, she lived very simply.
In fact, she told the Daily Mail:

We weren’t allowed to watch TV. We didn’t have passports and we didn’t travel – it was too expensive.

When she was 16, a modeling scout discovered her in the mall, and two years later, she had moved to New York.

Angela Barbutistarted her reporting career in the seventh grade at her middle school newspaper in Queens. She covers celebrities, movies and television for Heavy. She's had lunch with Tony Danza, and Dave Franco said he liked her accent. Reach her at angela@heavy.com or follow her on Twitter @angciao.March 30, 2014 11:26 pm